Writer and aspiring polymath

Projects

Women in STEM podcast

Although women make up about half the workforce in U.S., only about a quarter of science, technology, engineering and math professionals are women. As a reporter for LNP Media Group, I launched and hosted a podcast that spotlighted women in careers like bridge engineering, forensic accounting, cancer research and more. Because it tapped into a growing interest in STEM careers and education, the show was the newspaper’s first podcast to land a season-long sponsor.

In 2013 and 2014, I facilitated two public art projects that celebrated the resilience of people in recovery from mental illness. During the project, I taught participants basic photography skills, which they used to take each other’s portraits. They then wheat pasted large-scale black and white posters of the portraits onto wooden panels, which were hung outside for a public exhibition. Participants also helped craft the personal narratives that accompanied their photos.

Faces of Mental Health Recovery took place in one rural county and one suburban county as part of the “I’m the Evidence” campaign of the Mental Health Association in PA. The project also received support from the Perry County Council of the Arts, Hopeworx Inc., and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.